Unfortunately our beloved pooch passed on to doggy heaven in February 2010 from a apparent heart attack. She will be greatly missed. Meet, Bailey     Bailey is our 6 year old White German Shepherd cross. We're not entirely sure what she is crossed with, but coloring etc. suggests yellow lab. See her as a puppy     Bailey is a dog with attitude, you can even see it in this puppy picture. As much as she is lovable she is also very protective, and has the spine of a whip. Yes you read that right, she will come at you with her hair up, ears back and looking to rip your legs off, but make a move, and her tail is between her legs, and she runs to a safer distance... keeps barking all scary like but from a distance! However, I know she would step in if anyone or anything ever truly threatened any of us.     We are sure Bailey was a human in a past life, in particular a women. She always moves in an attempt to be between Holly and myself anytime (usually a weekend morning) where we are still laying in bed awake and talking. She will hear us and up on the bed she comes to offer good morning kisses. If we are too close together for her liking she will squeeze in between, and has been known to actually push Holly away with her feet, or place her feet on me and push her away with her back. She also used to try and push our niece Megan off my knee when Megan was a baby, yet, if a male is sitting too close to me, or I am holding a baby boy, she pays no attention at all. Human woman I tell ya!     Other special "traits" of this dog with attitude is sleeping on the couch where she is NOT allowed. At times we put items on the couch at night to stop her from getting on it, but in the morning we will sometimes find the item(s) on the floor, where she has pushed them off so she had room to sleep. She also LOVES tomato sauce. Pizza, pasta, you name it, if it has tomato sauce on it, she will try to get it. Major garbage picker! Should we happen to leave garbage out at night, she's in it, albeit neatly but she's in. She will sniff the bag until she finds where the item she wants is, rip a small hole right at the location she needs and pull the items out, most often leaving no other items out, just a hole in the bag.     She can eat anything and not get sick. Toys, whole chicken carcasses, muffin wrappers, Q-tips, God awful rotten meat that was forgotten about in the fridge, you name it. Anything that would kill a human, she handles with out any side effects at all. There has been only two things she has brought back up. She ate Holly's expensive leather sandal (boy was Holly pissed) not long after we got her, a few hours later it came back out. The other item was the leg of Bradley's stuffed monkey, George (she almost died over that one.. not because of the leg, because of me... no one messes with a George!) 3 days later it came back up too, sill intact! Everything else has ended up in the backyard, sometimes neatly wrapped in a muffin wrappers or paper towels depending on what she eats.     Bailey took a lot of work, and a lot of change on our part. Our old dog Pebbles (RIP) was the best dog ever. She was no trouble (after she got out of the puppy stage) extremely obedient, never stole food, never got in the garbage, nothing. We didn't even give this kind of thing a second thought, because she just didn't do it. So when Bailey came along, it took us a while to change our own habits to deal with a dog that wants to steal anything she thinks is edible.     I wouldn't trade her for the world though, she is my buddy! She is a dog with attitude but we can live with that, so long as she is friendly, and full of kisses! One last thing.... she sheds! Like crazy!!!

Click to enlarge any picture Just layin' around Bailey, "The Sophisticated" She falls asleep within 30sec of laying on her back Bailey loves to open bottles. Takes only seconds no matter how tight you put the lid on. Once the lid is off, she leaves it. She doesn't always stick to small balls, she also has a soccer ball and a basketball she likes. She comes to be scolded here after being in the garbage. Note the tomato sauce on her head. Talk about being busted!